Might be related, not sure because this is the first time I hear about this manufacturer: "Bambulab A1 Recall Update" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255538
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Wow!
Also the point about leaky abstractions, the two API approach makes sense to me.
It's midnight in Western Europe now but I'll take a closer look in a few hours.
> When Boeing pitched the weapon to commanders last year, they presented an "expedited nine-month option" for delivery that required exempting the contractor from an in-depth review that ensures the Pentagon is getting the best deal possible.
The spike protein present in both SARS-CoV-2 virus and Covid vaccines contains amyloidogenic epitopes that might be behind those collections of symptoms. There is no safe dose of prions in the brain.
> [00:48:51] We have remembered the soldiers and tried to imagine the warfare they endured, but that's got in the way of understanding the great war's full character and impact.
> Of course we can't ignore the mud and the suffering, but I believe that a hundred years on from 1914 it's time to let go of the dead.
> We can't just feel the great war as a piece of poetry, or a stark morality play. We need to understand it as history. History that cast long shadows over the years that followed.
> A hundred years on, the great war still has enduring resonance, but our understanding of it is often a caricatured mixture of mud and death, poets and poppies.
> In this series I want to clamber out of the trenches to explore the deeper meaning of the great war and its momentous legacies.
> One paradox of the war is that it wasn't caused by profound political or ideological divisions but it did create them in its wake.
> The war made politics red-hot. It gave birth to an age of mass democracy with the vote extended to ordinary men and women.
> The basic idea is that rigidly repetitive molecular structures — such as the repetitive surfaces of some types of virus particles — can reliably provide an exceptionally strong trigger for antibody-producing B cells. The exceptional performance of the HPV vaccine, which is composed of empty virus-like particles self-assembled from 360 copies of the HPV coat protein, is a spectacular fulfillment of Bachmann’s prophecy.
> [...]
> The Walter Reed vaccine arrays SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins on a repetitive platform called ferritin. I was ejected from the trial when FDA officials dictated that people who had received the newly released Moderna or Pfizer vaccines couldn’t be allowed to volunteer. I found the regulatory edict incomprehensible. The key question a Phase I trial of a second-generation Covid vaccine needs to answer is whether the vaccine is safe to use as a booster dose.
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> This past January, I again attempted to vote with my arm by asking to be enrolled in a Phase III trial of ABNCov-2, which uses a repetitive SpyCatcher platform Bachmann helped develop. Two weeks prior to my attempt to enroll in the trial, regulators inexplicably dictated that only people over age 65 could be eligible.
> Another repetitively arrayed vaccine, SKYCovione, was designed by Neil King and David Baker at University of Washington. SKYCovione was authorized for use in South Korea in June 2022, but Korean regulators devastatingly hobbled it by only allowing it to be used as a first dose. There’s basically nobody left in that category in Korea, so only a few thousand people received the improved vaccine.
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> Update: In April 2023, a trial of a vaccine where the “stalk” domain of influenza HA is repetitively arrayed on ferritin provided yet another convincing confirmation of the breadth and durability of antibody responses to Bachmann immunogens (Widge et al).
The number goes down surprisingly fast and it is not an actionable metric in practice, especially for a working-class person. I guess if you are a wealthy socialite it might push you to try more of the many opportunities you have instead of repeating, but for me it was just a distraction.
>[00:01:00] backlash against STEM, someone notes here there's a ton of indoctrination that typically goes into STEM degrees, which no one seems willing to admit. Arguably most scientific research data and papers can be fudged or simply made up. There's even a reproducibility crisis, where most research papers can't be reproduced, and so a lot of it was simply made up or the experiments set up in a certain way to bias for a certain desired result which was paid for by the sponsors of the experiment right paid for by grant money. I mean just take a look at Dr Fauci, the vaccinations and Covid masks, they can get science to back up whatever data they wanted to back up.
> [00:05:24] When I was conducting interviews for FAANG at Google and Facebook I would occasionally interview these immigrants who were just so smart, I mean they knew every LeetCode question they could ace them just one after the other, perfect answers, and they would smoke any American. I mean they were brilliant candidates, America needs that kind of talent, we should bring them in but it's just personally I would not want to compete at that level. I mean I've got better things to do than that, and maybe you should find something better to do as well, and even in the coding competitions like the ACM competitions I've competed in before, Americans just don't stand the chance because we just don't want enough.
> [00:11:43] In my personal opinion the world is about to get a lot more entrepreneurial if it hasn't already. These days every teenager and their grandma seems to be an entrepreneur or a CEO, and sure we like to laugh at them but some of these people actually are legit CEOs and entrepreneurs, and in a way the 9-to-5 employee just can't compete with that type of world anymore. Eventually the 9-to-5 employee slave will truly become the world of the wage slaves a bottom rung of society, kind of like blue collarr worker. You could do it if you like I guess, if you think it's fun.
Didn’t know about it, here is the video of that talk in YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg
There is a poem-style intro titled “Flatscreens / a song about code” until the talk proper starts at 5’11”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg?t=311
Edit: I’m watching it and it is done in an entertaining style but is a bit loose on some details I know about, such as implying that the IBM PC development was started in the early 1970’s when it was in fact started in 1980. Still worth watching so far.
Edit 2: finished, it is definitely worth watching. It goes into “The Twilight Zone” of a very interesting alternative history. And does a good job reporting on the Gary Kildall / IBM missed deal for their PC OS.
> "This is mainly because of our concern about handing our business over to Amazon. We plan to open source the entire system once we are fully deployed. In fact, the fully decentralized system we will be making available next year will need to be open source."
> He added that while the org has pricing for its web-based products (here), it has "not established pricing for Croquet for Unity yet – this will be set once we have the commercial release in the next few months, but will be very competitive."
> He says he tried to alert authorities of his find soon after returning to port, phoning the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
> Within hours, he received a return call from an official. The message was that a shipping container had fallen from a Russian ship in the area off Robe. The implication, he says, was that he’d probably fished up a shipping container, or part of it.
> AMSA said this week it had no record of corresponding with Olver during that period.
> Unimpressed, he chose not to pursue the matter. Three years later, he tried again.
> Olver wrote an email dated Monday, November 27, 2017, to Ocean Infinity, the company undertaking a new – and ultimately fruitless – search for MH370.
> [...]
> He says he received no reply.
I can’t vouch for the veracity of his account, of course.
What I can do is understand how he would not have had motivation to try reporting it more times after being dismissed, and also how his reports might have got lost among what I imagine were great amounts of unreliable hints coming from all kinds of people.
I was thinking that they must have built others before to get this result, and sure enough in the linked blog post it says that it was the 4th, like the swamp castle in the Monty Python movie.
It even has a frikkin’ laser [range finder] attached to its head.
This is beautiful. I zoomed in stared at the switching digits like I did as a kid in the 80s with my own Casio watch. Thanks for posting this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304
“Rewriting wipEout”: https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout
As I wrote at the time: “WOW! Just a `git clone`, download and unpack the .zip with the assets (end of the blog post), type `make` and it compiles on Linux without warnings into `wipegame`, run it and it works first time!” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086874
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> Glacier moss balls can grow up to about eight inches long before they fall apart, and can live at least six years. The one on the right was tagged with beads by researchers.
In the words of the engineer that designed the SID chip, Bob Yannes who founded the synthesizer company Ensoniq after he left Commodore in 1982:
> “Actually, I was an electronic music hobbyist before I started working for MOS Technology (one of Commodore's chip divisions at the time) and before I knew anything at all about VLSI chip design. One of the reasons I was hired was my knowledge of music synthesis was deemed valuable for future MOS/Commodore products. When I designed the SID chip, I was attempting to create a single-chip synthesizer voice which hopefully would find it's way into polyphonic/polytimbral synthesizers.”
> “The SID chip was my first attempt at a phase-accumulating oscillator, which is the heart of all wavetable synthesis systems. Due to time constraints, the oscillators in SID were not multiplexed, therefore they took up a lot of chip area, constraining the number of voices I could fit on a chip. All ENSONIQ sound chips use a multiplexed oscillator which allows us to produce at least 32 voices per chip. Aside from that, little else of SID is to be found in our designs, which more closely resemble the Mountain Computer sound card for the Apple II (the basis of the Alpha Syntauri system). The DOC I chip (used in the Mirage and ESQ-1) was modeled on this sound card. Our current designs, which include waveform interpolation, digital filters and digital effects are new designs that aren't really based on anything other than our imaginations.”
> “The issue wasn't budget, it was development time and chip size constraints. The design/prototype/debug/production schedule of the SID chip, VIC II chip and Commodore 64 were incredibly tight (some would say impossibly tight)--we did things faster than Commodore had ever done before and were never able to repeat after! If I had had more time, I would have developed a proper MOS op-amp which would have eliminated the signal leakage which occurred when the volume of the voice was supposed to be zero. This lead to poor signal-to-noise ratio, although it could be dealt with by stopping the oscillator. It would also have greatly improved the filter, particularly in achieving high resonance. I originally planned to have an exponential look-up table to provide a direct translation for the equal-tempered scale, but it took up too much silicon and it was easy enough to do in software anyway.”
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